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Oregon Trail: Who played it as a kid?

THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny.Real shiny.Registered User regular
edited November 2008 in Games and Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9pH2UTsfbg&feature=related

I only made it through maybe once. I always died of Typhoid fever.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    best game ever. I got yellow fever. I wish it was on wiiware.

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  • LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    This and Odell Lake were my favorite Apple ][e games!
    Lemoade stand was a close second though...

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  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    Who played it as a kid?

    Who didn't? Well, anyone born after 1989(ish) probably.

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  • StraythStrayth Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I played this all the time. In 4th grade, we had two computers in our class (!) and kids who did exceptionally well or got rewarded often got to use the computer for a day. They were DOS, no mice. Yes, I'm that old.

    Then when my mother purchased a PowerMac in the 90s, I played The Oregon Trail II as one of the many (seven) games available on a mac. This was also very fun.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Everyone played this as a kid

    The random Slipknot music in that video was pretty lol

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    We were chatting about this a few weeks ago in the Game series that should die thread.

    There is a hilarious LP about Oregon Trail, that was done by the same guy who did the conspiracy theory animal crossing.

    http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/OregonTrail/

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  • WetsunWetsun Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man, 20 oxen + grueling pace = Oregon in like 10 minutes.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    why did it become a terrible, terrible action game right at the end when you thought you might be able to win

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Strayth wrote: »
    I played this all the time. In 4th grade, we had two computers in our class (!) and kids who did exceptionally well or got rewarded often got to use the computer for a day. They were DOS, no mice. Yes, I'm that old.

    Then when my mother purchased a PowerMac in the 90s, I played The Oregon Trail II as one of the many (seven) games available on a mac. This was also very fun.

    I'm not that old, but played the DOS version in 3rd and 4th grade, though the school system in CA wasn't too great then.

    I preferred Yukon Trail as a kid over Oregon Trail :P

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    UncleSporky wrote: »
    why did it become a terrible, terrible action game right at the end when you thought you might be able to win

    Because the Dalles are treacherous!

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  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MrDelish wrote: »
    I'm not that old, but played the DOS version in 3rd and 4th grade, though the school system in CA wasn't too great then.

    I preferred Yukon Trail as a kid over Oregon Trail :P

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    DOS?! I played it on the Apple IIe!

    EDIT: I really don't know if the DOS or the Apple version came first, but the Apple version certainly looked crappier than the OP's screenshot. And was SO much better...

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MrDelish wrote: »
    Strayth wrote: »
    I played this all the time. In 4th grade, we had two computers in our class (!) and kids who did exceptionally well or got rewarded often got to use the computer for a day. They were DOS, no mice. Yes, I'm that old.

    Then when my mother purchased a PowerMac in the 90s, I played The Oregon Trail II as one of the many (seven) games available on a mac. This was also very fun.

    I'm not that old, but played the DOS version in 3rd and 4th grade, though the school system in CA wasn't too great then.

    I preferred Yukon Trail as a kid over Oregon Trail :P

    I preferred Carmen Sandiego - but she didn't teach me about dysentery or snake bites.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    MrDelish wrote: »
    Strayth wrote: »
    I played this all the time. In 4th grade, we had two computers in our class (!) and kids who did exceptionally well or got rewarded often got to use the computer for a day. They were DOS, no mice. Yes, I'm that old.

    Then when my mother purchased a PowerMac in the 90s, I played The Oregon Trail II as one of the many (seven) games available on a mac. This was also very fun.

    I'm not that old, but played the DOS version in 3rd and 4th grade, though the school system in CA wasn't too great then.

    I preferred Yukon Trail as a kid over Oregon Trail :P

    I preferred Carmen Sandiego - but she didn't teach me about dysentery or snake bites.

    I enjoyed the original Carmen Sandiego, though as a kid I had no idea what the deepest lake in the US was.

    Stupid trivia to win the game

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  • SorensonSorenson Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I never played the original, but me and my brother had a copy of 2 for windows - until he lost it after using it as a prop for one of his "movies". :x But fine times we had, even if we rarely ever made it even half the way there. There was also a communal copy of Yukon Trail that we got in our class one year as kids - hoo, those were good times.
    zhen_rogue wrote: »
    This and Odell Lake were my favorite Apple ][e games!
    Lemoade stand was a close second though...
    SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! I remember that from way back in my days as a young'in, but I could never remember the name for whatever reason! :D How I played that game back in the day, always fearful of the dreaded "angler" snatching me from the water!

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  • WitchsightWitchsight Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man, id like to say ive played this shit (dysentery pun?), but i hadnt even heard of it till a few years ago. My PC memories are a bit limited i guess but what year are we talking?

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man the hunting in the Apple ][e version was bullshit. 3rd person little stick figure guy with a gun, impossible to aim at the lightning fast critters.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The Apple version was mandatory 'work' in my 7th grade computer class. Good fucking times.

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  • BrymBrym Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    zhen_rogue wrote: »
    This and Odell Lake were my favorite Apple ][e games!
    Lemoade stand was a close second though...

    Whoah! You know Odell Lake and Lemonade Stand!

    I never knew if those were famous games or not, since I've never heard of them since playing them as a kid.

    Do you remember Odell Woods too? And some game about running a bike shop?

    And what was the game where you had to fly on a plane to some town midway through and the stewardess would ask if you wanted coffee, tea, or milk?

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Man the hunting in the Apple ][e version was bullshit. 3rd person little stick figure guy with a gun, impossible to aim at the lightning fast critters.

    I didn't have a problem with that as a kid

    maybe you were just awful :P

    I have a funny story about this game. I was playing Wolfenstein 3D at about the same time (at home), and was playing oregon trail at school. Was moving along, and a thief stole eight bullets.

    I was like "he must be getting those eight bullets for the beginning of wolfenstein 3d lols lols"

    ...

    I was a weird kid

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The first half / two thirds of that video in the OP was awesome. The rest only sucked because nothing happened.

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Hell yeah, this was the best game in elementary school. That river was the only way to finish the game before Computer Lab ended. I love that game.

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I think I only beat it once , the rest of the time I was killed by wolverines.

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I remember playing Oregon trail... I even found oregon trail 2 and 3 in a store one time a bunch of years ago and HAD to buy it. They weren't amazing I think.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MrDelish wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Man the hunting in the Apple ][e version was bullshit. 3rd person little stick figure guy with a gun, impossible to aim at the lightning fast critters.

    I didn't have a problem with that as a kid

    maybe you were just awful :P

    This is entirely possible.

    Also when we played it in school it was like 6 of us playing all at once, and we'd fight over who got to do the hunting.

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  • MongerMonger I got the ham stink. Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    My survival strategy? Buy nothing but ammo, and shoot thousands of pounds of bear that I can't carry back to the wagon.

    I would also do this when playing this game.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    EspantaPajaro wrote: »
    I think I only beat it once , the rest of the time I was killed by wolverines.
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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Oregon Trail, Lemonade Stand, and some title where you ran a computer store were the three games I played to death in the shitty California funded computer classes.

    I blame the state for turning me into a VG addict.

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    We were chatting about this a few weeks ago in the Game series that should die thread.

    There is a hilarious LP about Oregon Trail, that was done by the same guy who did the conspiracy theory animal crossing.

    http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/OregonTrail/
    OTLP wrote:
    Unbeknownst to those early trailblazers, over a hundred years later America would be blessed with the game: The Oregon Trail, brought to us in 1974 by Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation, or MECC.

    Hilarious.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2008
    I have a shirt with an oxen cart on it that says "You have died of Dysentery"

    I played through Oregon Trail at least a million times.

    "You shot 1,400 pounds of food. Unfortunately you can only carry 100 back to the wagon."

    Apparently your guy never knew he could just take multiple trips.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sorry, I only played the probably inferior Yukon Trail.

    Linda Rules!

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    I have a shirt with an oxen cart on it that says "You have died of Dysentery"

    I played through Oregon Trail at least a million times.

    "You shot 1,400 pounds of food. Unfortunately you can only carry 100 back to the wagon."

    Apparently your guy never knew he could just take multiple trips.

    How far is each trip going to be? How many other predators (scavengers?) are around waiting to take advandage of easy meals? Why didn't the hunter actually travel in a party?

    Except for the last question, I'd say it was a fairly realistic simulation of that aspect of the pioneer days. What with the settlers basically killing anything that moved and not using the game efficiently...

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  • LednehLedneh shinesquawk Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I still wanna know just what the hell was so horrible about the waffle incident

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  • AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Oh man, amazing memories. I was part of the Indian Education program back in my elementary school (apparently we of Native American descent got fucked so hard in the past they decided to make up for it by letting us go to the computer lab three times a week), and I ALWAYS chose this game.

    I think the hunting was my favorite part, though as a previous poster has noted it sucked only being able to cary 100 lbs of food back.

    I can't remember if I ever beat it; probably not, that game was cheap as hell.

    Now I just need someone to make a Guerilla War thread and my day will be complete. 8-)

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Aye, Oregon Trail player here as well. There was never time to beat it though at my school: we only had like 2 computers that had it installed, and everyone wanted a turn. =)

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2008
    Is there a freeware version of this anywhere? I've got a hankering to play now.

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I never played the first one, but played the crap outta the second in sixth grade. Everyone loved that game.

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  • Unearthly StewUnearthly Stew Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Is there a freeware version of this anywhere? I've got a hankering to play now.

    THIS!!!

    Also know what was bitchin'? Our school had where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego. I had always wanted to know if other states had a Carmen Sandiego game.

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